There was recently a series of either small fish kills or small fish spills, the latter from commercial vessels. Holgate had a goodly number of DOA bunker/menhaden float in.
I couldn’t get down there to check things out. The remains would have offered insights into how long ago they had dearly departed and possibly hint at what did them in.
Finding a slew of bunker carcasses is anything but rare, considering there are millions of them out there and seemingly inclined to give up the ghost on a…
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